Cheetahs, Penguins and Bears…oh my! These are just some of the century-old denizens that you will find inside the historic New York City Upper East Side mansion that serves as the headquarters of The Explorers Club. This venerable club celebrated its 113th year with their annual star-studded awards dinner held on March 25, 2017. The …

I first met Canadian Explorer and adventurer Geoff Green in 2003 at the Explorers Club in New York City. Geoff is the brainchild and visionary of the Students On Ice Foundation, a wonderful organization that takes young people to experience the beauty, people, history and wildlife of the Arctic and Antarctic. He is a world …

Flying over the ocean to Heathrow Airport brought a vast feeling of relief. I was on my own, but I didn’t feel like it. I was aligned with something greater: something that brought me not just to a new city, but to a larger journey that would take me to many places, and to a sense of peace within myself.

OutdoorFest’s first-ever annual festival, which provided ten days of free outdoor activities to New Yorkers across every borough, was an enormous success, and had just wrapped up a few days before we spoke.